August 19, 2017

Bannon is about to flame Trump's butt

In this hilarious portent of more tick-tocking trouble for Trump, the very former White House strategist Steve Bannon says he said to the president upon his firing, "Look, I’ll focus on going after the establishment." The president said, "Good, I need that."

Because he's an imbecile, it doesn't seem to have occurred to Trump that he's the establishment now, and that Bannon, in relating their conversation to the Weekly Standard, was essentially announcing his coming war with the Trump administration — thus the president himself. Bannon's added assurance that "I’ll always be here covering for you" was akin to Hitler's promise to Stalin.

A Bannon friend and associate, in conversation with the Atlantic, clarified the thrust of "going after the establishment": "He’s going nuclear. You have no idea. This is gonna be really fucking bad."

Virtually anyone of any intelligence could see what's coming, which is why, perhaps, Trump couldn’t. Supremely ironic is that his chief of staff, John Kelly, wanted Bannon gone so that White House turmoil could be allayed. But firing Bannon has merely hurled the skunk outside the chicken coop, where he is free to roam and stink up whatever and whomever he loathes inside the administration.

Of course it’s also quite possible that Trump could indeed see the inevitable, but Bannon’s fame and credit-grabbing were simply too much for the narcissist in chief. If firing Bannon could appease Trump’s ego, then so be it; let the escalated turmoil rain down. What does Trump care? He adores anarchy; and besides, he’s not there to actually get things done. He’s just there to strut and swindle taxpayers out of jet fuel.

It’s also quite possible that Bannon soon realized that his barely muted threat of establishment-wrecking and administration-tackling would nonetheless go right over the president’s thick head; hence, to the Weekly Standard, he positively bellowed his present position.

“The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over. We still have a huge movement,” said Bannon, “and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. It’ll be something else. And there’ll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over.”

Now there’s an ego commensurate with Trump’s. With Bannon’s departure, Trump’s presidency is “over.” In imagining Trump’s fury in hearing that, I’m still smiling. What’s more, Bannon sees the White House from which he was just ejected as little more than a lingering conduit for his own political objectives — the movement’s objectives, that is, not Trump’s. To which I say, Why not? After all, Trump hasn’t any.

But back to the strategist’s friend, who so eloquently framed the Trump administration, post-Bannon: “This is gonna be really fucking bad … [We] have no idea.” Wrong, friend. It’s been really fucking bad all along. And once a U.S. president sympathizes and aligns with Nazis, can it really get any fucking worse?

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Bannon is about to flame Trump's butt

In this hilarious portent of more tick-tocking trouble for Trump, the very former White House strategist Steve Bannon says he said to the president upon his firing, "Look, I’ll focus on going after the establishment." The president said, "Good, I need that."

Because he's an imbecile, it doesn't seem to have occurred to Trump that he's the establishment now, and that Bannon, in relating their conversation to the Weekly Standard, was essentially announcing his coming war with the Trump administration — thus the president himself. Bannon's added assurance that "I’ll always be here covering for you" was akin to Hitler's promise to Stalin.

A Bannon friend and associate, in conversation with the Atlantic, clarified the thrust of "going after the establishment": "He’s going nuclear. You have no idea. This is gonna be really fucking bad."

Virtually anyone of any intelligence could see what's coming, which is why, perhaps, Trump couldn’t. Supremely ironic is that his chief of staff, John Kelly, wanted Bannon gone so that White House turmoil could be allayed. But firing Bannon has merely hurled the skunk outside the chicken coop, where he is free to roam and stink up whatever and whomever he loathes inside the administration.

Of course it’s also quite possible that Trump could indeed see the inevitable, but Bannon’s fame and credit-grabbing were simply too much for the narcissist in chief. If firing Bannon could appease Trump’s ego, then so be it; let the escalated turmoil rain down. What does Trump care? He adores anarchy; and besides, he’s not there to actually get things done. He’s just there to strut and swindle taxpayers out of jet fuel.

It’s also quite possible that Bannon soon realized that his barely muted threat of establishment-wrecking and administration-tackling would nonetheless go right over the president’s thick head; hence, to the Weekly Standard, he positively bellowed his present position.

“The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over. We still have a huge movement,” said Bannon, “and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. It’ll be something else. And there’ll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over.”

Now there’s an ego commensurate with Trump’s. With Bannon’s departure, Trump’s presidency is “over.” In imagining Trump’s fury in hearing that, I’m still smiling. What’s more, Bannon sees the White House from which he was just ejected as little more than a lingering conduit for his own political objectives — the movement’s objectives, that is, not Trump’s. To which I say, Why not? After all, Trump hasn’t any.

But back to the strategist’s friend, who so eloquently framed the Trump administration, post-Bannon: “This is gonna be really fucking bad … [We] have no idea.” Wrong, friend. It’s been really fucking bad all along. And once a U.S. president sympathizes and aligns with Nazis, can it really get any fucking worse?